God established His relationship with you to make you happy, and nothing you do that does not share His purpose can be real. The purpose God ascribed to anything is its only function. Because of His reason for creating His relationship with you, the function of relationships became forever “to make happy.” And nothing else. To fulfill this function [to make happy] you relate to your creations as God to His. For nothing God created is apart from happiness, and nothing God created but would extend happiness as its Creator did. Whatever does not fulfill this function cannot be real.
In this world it is impossible to create. Yet it is possible to make happy. I have said repeatedly that the Holy Spirit would not deprive you of your special relationships, but would transform them. And all that is meant by that is that He will restore to them the function given them by God. The function you have given them is clearly not to make happy. But the holy relationship shares God’s purpose, rather than aiming to make a substitute for it. Every special relationship you have made is a substitute for God’s Will, and glorifies yours instead of His because of the illusion that they are different. (A Course in Miracles, T-17.IV.1-2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
It is helpful to remember that only Love creates and only like Itself. Because Love is one, Love’s creations remain united with It. The unified relationship of Love with Its creations is the holy relationship. The purpose of the holy relationship is to maintain and extend Love’s oneness.
The ego cannot create because it is the denial of Love, the sole Source of Creation. The most the ego can do is to make substitute illusions that offer temporary pleasure. But these illusions are devoid of Love and cannot offer the happiness that comes with accepting God’s gift of Love. If we believe the illusions are real, we are blind to the reality of Love. Since the purpose of Creation is to make happy by extending Love, the ego’s special relationships are transformed when we accept Love’s purpose to extend Its happiness instead of the ego’s purpose to multiply loveless illusions of separation.
Today we join with the Holy Spirit to offer only Love in our relationships. With His help, our relationships will be transformed into holy relationships.
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